…or that’s what you’d think to hear the Senate Republicans tell it. Bless their virginal little hearts. When they selflessly decided to run for seats in the United States Senate, no one told them (nor could they have imagined in their inexperience and naiveté!) that the carefree, idyllic brotherhood of the Senate itself could be shattered by the irruption of that most foul repast of villains – politics! In the Senate!! Perish the very notion!

Check out MSNBC’s hilariously (and characteristically) toolish take on the incident. Their headline even manages to squeeze some racism into their ludicrously partisan ‘coverage’ with a Scooteresque faux-literary reference to a “quiet Indian summer afternoon”. Apparently, the gentle and bucolic Senate Republicans were a-sittin’ under a tree makin’ lemonade an’ tellin’ tall-tales before the child-molesting cannibal Reid shattered their prelapsarian idylls with his blood-thirsty politics. Garsh, them there’s some scurry goin’s-on!